Add experimental support for compiling CUDA kernels with Clang#176
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Introduce an experimental
clangbackend forContextCupy.It can be enabled by specifying a
backend='clang'flag onContextCupy; the default value isnvrtcto use the Nvidia compiler. Additionally the environment flagXO_CUDA_BACKENDcan be used to select this for the whole session, andXO_CUDA_CLANGcan be given a path to theclang++executable if one cannot be auto-discovered for some reason.